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Stories from http://www.therecord.comNewsen-ca60Copyright (c) Metroland Media Group Ltd. 2015, All Rights Reserved.Warm or cold? Place your spring weather bet http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5456802-warm-or-cold-place-your-spring-weather-bet/
<img alt="A man walks past a garden of artificial flowers on the front lawn of a Coronation Boulevard home in Cambridge that were in place to welcome the first day of spring in 2000. Will Waterloo Region still be buried under snow when spring rolls around this year?" src="http://media.zuza.com/0/9/09d78ceb-687a-4e23-a3c9-ab618e849f1e/spring_flowers.jpg_b9289___Content.jpg" /><p> Take your pick for March weather in Waterloo Region and southern Ontario.</p>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:43:40 -0500 http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5456802-warm-or-cold-place-your-spring-weather-bet/Pan Am medals feature Braille for first timehttp://www.therecord.com/sports-story/5457033-pan-am-medals-feature-braille-for-first-time/
<img alt="Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games silver, gold and bronze medals are displayed as the organizing committee unveils the medals that will be awarded at the games during an announcement in Toronto on Tuesday, March 3, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young" src="http://media.zuza.com/f/8/f89c6b43-0ced-40af-8c2c-8e7e0b776a79/chy102253720_hd_Content.jpg" /><p>Medals for Pan American Games incorporate Braille for the first time</p>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:43:26 -0500 http://www.therecord.com/sports-story/5457033-pan-am-medals-feature-braille-for-first-time/Levin pleads guilty to child porn chargeshttp://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457020-levin-pleads-guilty-to-child-porn-charges/
<img alt="Former university professor Benjamin Levin (right), who faces child pornography charges, arrives at court in Toronto, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 with his lawyer Clayton Ruby. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young" src="http://media.zuza.com/3/8/384a7fde-39b0-450f-8ced-6674a0549507/chy118253756_hd_Content.jpg" /><p>Toronto prof expected to plead guilty to some of 7 child porn charges he faces</p>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:27:54 -0500 http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457020-levin-pleads-guilty-to-child-porn-charges/Online romance ended in vicious beating over doghttp://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457583-online-romance-ended-in-vicious-beating-over-dog/
A man who was worried about losing his dog admitted Tuesday to a vicious beating after an Internet romance soured in the real world.</p>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:17:09 -0500 http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457583-online-romance-ended-in-vicious-beating-over-dog/Oil glut: U.S. running out of room to store crudehttp://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457872-oil-glut-u-s-running-out-of-room-to-store-crude/
The U.S. has so much crude that it is running out of places to put it, and that could drive oil and gasoline prices even lower in the coming months.</p>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:02:42 -0500 http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457872-oil-glut-u-s-running-out-of-room-to-store-crude/A historical undertakinghttp://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457860-a-historical-undertaking/
<img alt="Historian Marion Roes looks inside the side window of an old horse-drawn hearse in storage at the Waterloo Region Museum in Kitchener." src="http://media.zuza.com/5/3/534c405c-3a68-402a-9ce2-50c670506c45/B821880048Z.1_20150303175621_000_GE81ECVQS.2_Content.jpg" /><p>There was a time in the late 1800s when you knew you were really in trouble if your local furniture maker was on his way to your house with the Black Mariah.</p>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:56:21 -0500 http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457860-a-historical-undertaking/Agents target industry helping Chinese women have American babieshttp://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457858-agents-target-industry-helping-chinese-women-have-american-babies/
U.S. federal agents searched more than a dozen homes Tuesday in a crackdown on so-called maternity tourism operators who arrange for pregnant Chinese women to give birth in the U.S., where their babies automatically become American citizens.</p>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:55:48 -0500 http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457858-agents-target-industry-helping-chinese-women-have-american-babies/‘Jihadi John’ gripes on tape about scrutiny from U.K. security serviceshttp://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457857--jihadi-john-gripes-on-tape-about-scrutiny-from-u-k-security-services/
Audio tapes in which the man identified as “Jihadi John” complains about scrutiny from British intelligence services have been broadcast in Britain.</p>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:54:43 -0500 http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457857--jihadi-john-gripes-on-tape-about-scrutiny-from-u-k-security-services/Clinton’s private email use ran counter to Obama’s records pushhttp://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457819-clinton-s-private-email-use-ran-counter-to-obama-s-records-push/
<img alt=" Former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton is under scrutiny for using private email to conduct official business." src="http://media.zuza.com/8/6/864b022f-1b3d-412d-a580-4cca35a0b0e1/B821882847Z.1_20150303173849_000_GVL1EDLEH.2_Content.jpg" /><p> Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account while Secretary of State may not have broken the law, but it exposed her to hacking and ran counter to the Obama administration’s policy of preserving electronic records.</p>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:38:49 -0500 http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457819-clinton-s-private-email-use-ran-counter-to-obama-s-records-push/Region, developers try to reach deal on land planhttp://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457638-region-developers-try-to-reach-deal-on-land-plan/
Regional officials and local developers are wrapped up in complex negotiations to settle a dispute over the amount of new land that should be available for homes here ahead of a June deadline.</p>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:38:05 -0500 http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5457638-region-developers-try-to-reach-deal-on-land-plan/